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Mark Haranas

About

Mark Haranas, senior associate editor, covers the data center markets for CRN, with a focus on servers, software-defined, converged and hyper-converged infrastructure. Mark joined CRN in early 2015 after being assistant managing editor at the daily newspaper The Gardner News. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, with a degree in journalism. Today, Mark lives in Framingham, Mass. and enjoys being a father and watching mixed martial arts.

‘As far as partners go, being able to offer large HPC or supercomputer environments as-a-Service and have them funded in the GreenLake program I think can open up new practices for partners,’ says Worth Davis, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Computex Technology Solutions.

‘By combining our world-class teams and technology, we will have the opportunity to drive the next generation of high-performance computing and play an important part in advancing the way people live and work,’ says HPE CEO Antonio Neri.

“I want to leverage those best practices everywhere around the globe,” said Roskill. “When we’re doing something really well that’s compelling and resonating with partners, we want to be doing that everywhere in the world where it makes sense.”

The company lays the groundwork for a new consumption-led sales motion with TruScale Infrastructure Services, which allows customers to use and pay for on-premises data center hardware and services without having to purchase the equipment.

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As Lenovo capitalizes on synergies between its Data Center Group and Intelligent Devices Group, its bullish goal of market-share dominance is being fueled by a strictly enforced channel-first sales model.

‘When a customer’s time is up for a refresh and new systems, Nutanix getting a lot of attention. The rapid pace of innovation really puts them in a class of own,’ says William Fulmer, chief operating officer at Helient Systems.

‘That’s the real deal about this whole thing -- that we can create hybrid clouds in one or two clicks. In less than half an hour, you have a hybrid cloud running,’ says Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey in regards to Nutanix Xi Clusters for AWS.

‘It’s all managed from a single console, which means customers no longer have to buy multiple products and go through the planning and integration process simply to backup and recover their critical business data – they can do it from Nutanix,’ says Greg Smith, vice president of product marketing for Nutanix.